Ashley High School - Spinner Yearbook (Gastonia, NC)

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Ashley students demonstrate atavistic tendencies. Tlie Senior Class presented Teenage Millionaire on March 12. Diligent students always keep up with parallel reading assignments. Some lockers are really stacked! Page One Hundred Forty-five

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ABDULLAH KAKAB Our foreign e.xchange student this year hails from Afghanistan, a small mountainous country which lies northwest of India. I le is Abdullah kakar, the son of a prominent physician and teacher in Kabul, Afghanistan’s cajdtal city. 1 le arrix ' cd in Gastonia early last ugu,st, and was almost immediately bitten by the “football hug,’’ a sport which is not played in his country. Since then he has shown an avid interest in many phases of athletics, w ' hich he tries to combine w ' ith a full scholastic schedule. Gastonia has impressed him as being “awfully green’’ and the people as “awdully helptul.” I le is also an active mem- ber of the Key Club, and has therefore had a very full year. A great accomplishment wxas the fact that he readily o ' ercame the harrier hctw ' ccn the English and Persian languages. STUDENTS EXCHANGE WILLIAM nil PxAY LINDSAY Bill I iiulsay brought honor to himscll and his school h being .selected as the first Ashley student to spend a yi ' ar ahroatl under the Vmerican Held Sendee Program. Bill felt (’rastonia on lanuary 24. In New York he hoarded a plane for P io de |a ieiro. From there he traveled to Lortale ,a, Brazil, where he was met by Mr. and Mrs. . ' l ara Melo and their tw’o sons, ages 16 and 14, and their tiaughter, ageele ’cn. Mr. Melo is a law yer and Mrs. Melo works in the Treasury Department. Bill will return to Gastonia in mid-lanuary ol 1466. Viige Oue lliii ilivil I ' oiiy four

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Hou’ i - Pate W ' arren, l oyce Robinson, Ricky Parks, Dickie Giles, Rill Rradicy, Ronnie Smith, Rodney Champion, Eddie Stroupe. Rou’ 2— Bobby Summey, Larry |cnnings. Rill Broome, David Ballard, Richard Cioleman, George Johnson, John Rail, Dale Stubbs, Ray Pike. Rom 3— Leonard Morgan, Jim Jones, David Marvin, Steve Culbertson, Ernie Ensley, Trip Lawton, Doug Lanham, Harry Bryant. BASEBALL Picincmber the phrase Saving up for a Rainy Day”? d’hat’s e.xaetly what we did with hasehall games during the 1965 season. For the first twenty days the Green Wave managed to play only two of its scheduled games. The spirits of this enthusiastic team were not “damp- enetl hy this, however; and they proved it hy winning over Harding 5-4 on March 16 and East 5-1 on March 30. This year’s team is an e.xperienced one, with eight lettermen returning from last year. They arc proving to he a well-rounded hall team with a good hitting attack, an air-tight infield, and an excellent pitching staff. Page One Hundred Forty-six